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Our world is in transition as the post-war rules-based order becomes increasingly under threat. Authoritarian powers, large commercial digital platforms and populists disregard the value of allies working together.

Government openness and transparency in the form of communicating data can sometimes overshoot the mark.

An emergency debate was held the day before yesterday with the education minister Robbert Dijkgraaf on the influx of international students at Dutch higher education institutions.

Involve families in the data collection of your research The renovated Utrecht University Museum (UMU) will open its doors to the public in September 2023.

Political scientist Michal Onderco, Erasmus University Rotterdam, together with his colleague Wolfgang Wagner of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, received a grant for their research project 'Towards a new belligerency' Explaining changing attitudes on the willingness to fight for one's country'.

Ginevra Sanvitale investigated how emotions play a key role in how we adopt new technologies. FOMO, or Fear of Missing Out, is an important driver of social media.

Like most other disciplines emanating from the need to educate a managerial class in business schools, supply chain management was predominantly deployed at a firm-focused analytical level.

The Technology Drivers launched Techrede 2022. The Technology Drivers are a group of ambitious, socially engaged students from the 4 Technical Universities in Delft, Eindhoven, Twente and Wageningen; an initiative of the 4TU.Federation.

11:13 Publication From Black Lives Matter protests to Women's Marches across the world, the global circulation of social justice causes such as racism, misogyny, or climate change has renewed questions about how digital technologies facilitate or hinder transnational connections between activists.

A day at the beach, games, a visit to an embassy and a pub crawl. The activities at HOPweek help new students get to know not just The Hague but each other too.

Developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are moving quickly. This leads to positive things, such as faster detection of cancer, for example.

UvA professors Daniel Bonn, Marieke de Goede, Amade M'charek and Sonja Smets have been selected as new members by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

In Brussels, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) lobby hard on issues that are already on the political agenda, while companies lobby on issues they would like to see added to the agenda.

The word populism is on everybody's tongue these days, but do we all mean the same thing? What is the difference between left-wing and right-wing populism? Is populism good or bad for democracy? How are the populist parties in the Netherlands doing in the polls in the middle of this pandemic? These questions and more were put to our populism expert Matthijs Rooduijn.

When people think of new political parties, they tend to think of successful examples such as Podemos in Spain or the 5-Star Movement in Italy.

We know much about the behaviour and policies of right-wing autocrats, but little was known about their personality profile.